A tremor of bliss
Subtitle: contemporary writers on the saints
By: edited by Paul Elie, introduction by Robert Coles.
Contributors: Elie, Paul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Christian saints -- Cult; Christian life -- Catholic authors
Description: In these essays the saints appear as paradoxes: like T.S. Eliot's St. Thomas Becket, they have felt "a tremor of bliss," but they must fight all-too-mortal battles with despair, social indifference, and hardness of heart.